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Nijholt KT, Voorrips SN, Sánchez-Aguilera PI, Westenbrink BD. Exercising heart failure patients: cardiac protection through preservation of mitochondrial function and substrate utilization? CURRENT OPINION IN PHYSIOLOGY 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cophys.2023.100656] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/19/2023]
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Oh JH, Song S, Rhee H, Lee SH, Kim DY, Choe JC, Ahn J, Park JS, Shin MJ, Jeon YK, Lee HW, Choi JH, Lee HC, Cha KS. Normal Reference Plots for the Bioelectrical Impedance Vector in Healthy Korean Adults. J Korean Med Sci 2019; 34:e198. [PMID: 31373183 PMCID: PMC6676004 DOI: 10.3346/jkms.2019.34.e198] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2019] [Accepted: 07/05/2019] [Indexed: 01/10/2023] Open
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BACKGROUND Accurate volume measurement is important in the management of patients with congestive heart failure or renal insufficiency. A bioimpedance analyser can estimate total body water in litres and has been widely used in clinical practice due to its non-invasiveness and ease of results interpretation. To change impedance data to volumetric data, bioimpedance analysers use equations derived from data from healthy subjects, which may not apply to patients with other conditions. Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) was developed to overcome the dependence on those equations by constructing vector plots using raw impedance data. BIVA requires normal reference plots for the proper interpretation of individual vectors. The aim of this study was to construct normal reference vector plots of bioelectrical impedance for Koreans. METHODS Bioelectrical impedance measurements were collected from apparently healthy subjects screened according to a comprehensive physical examination and medical history performed by trained physicians. Reference vector contours were plotted on the RXc graph using the probability density function of the bivariate normal distribution. We further compared them with those of other ethnic groups. RESULTS A total of 242 healthy subjects aged 22 to 83 were recruited (137 men and 105 women) between December 2015 and November 2016. The centers of the tolerance ellipses were 306.3 Ω/m and 34.9 Ω/m for men and 425.6 Ω/m and 39.7 Ω/m for women. The ellipses were wider for women than for men. The confidence ellipses for Koreans were located between those for Americans and Spaniards without overlap for both genders. CONCLUSION This study presented gender-specific normal reference BIVA plots and corresponding tolerance and confidence ellipses on the RXc graph, which is important for the interpretation of BIA-reported volume status in patients with congestive heart failure or renal insufficiency. There were noticeable differences in reference ellipses with regard to gender and ethnic groups.
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- Jun Hyok Oh
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea.
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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- Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan, Korea
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Castillo Martínez L, Colín Ramírez E, Orea Tejeda A, Asensio Lafuente E, Bernal Rosales LP, Rebollar González V, Narváez David R, Dorantes García J. Bioelectrical impedance and strength measurements in patients with heart failure: comparison with functional class. Nutrition 2007; 23:412-8. [PMID: 17483008 DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2007.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2006] [Revised: 01/26/2007] [Accepted: 02/16/2007] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE Patients with chronic heart failure (HF) develop important changes in body composition. Nevertheless, the usual methods of body composition assessment can be misleading in patients with HF because tissue hydration is altered. Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis (BIVA) works without making any assumption about constant soft tissue hydration. In this study, patients with HF and systolic dysfunction (HFS) and preserved systolic function (HFPSF) underwent a body composition evaluation by the BIVA method; the comparison was done between New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional classes I-II and III-IV. METHODS We studied 243 patients with HF, 140 (101 in NYHA I-II and 39 in III-IV) with HFS and 103 (67 in NYHA I-II and 36 in II-IV) with HFPSF. Whole-body bioelectrical impedance was measured using BodyStat QuadScan 4000, which is tetrapolar and multiple-frequency equipment. RESULTS In both HF categories, reactance and phase angle were significantly lower, the impedance ratio of 200 kHz to that at 5 kHz was higher, and had significantly shorter and downsloping impedance vector in the NYHA III-IV group compared with the NYHA I-II group by gender. CONCLUSION Bioelectrical impedance analysis allows an easier evaluation of body composition and this might be particularly useful to stratify the severity of HF.
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- Lilia Castillo Martínez
- Heart Failure Clinic and Cardiology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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Sergi G, Lupoli L, Enzi G, Volpato S, Perissinotto E, Bertani R, Inelmen EM, Bonometto P, Busetto L, Berton A, Coin A. Reliability of bioelectrical impedance methods in detecting body fluids in elderly patients with congestive heart failure. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 2006; 66:19-30. [PMID: 16464784 DOI: 10.1080/00365510500402158] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the reliability of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) in estimating total body water (TBW) and extracellular water (ECW) in elderly patients suffering from congestive heart failure (CHF). MATERIAL AND METHODS In 72 elderly subjects, 34 with CHF (aged 83.9+/-6.9 years) and 38 healthy controls (78.7+/-7.5 years), TBW and ECW values were assessed using dilution methods, and bioelectrical variables were measured using single frequency BIA (SF-BIA) at 1 and 50 kHz, and bioelectrical spectroscopy (BIS). RESULTS In CHF patients, Ht(2)/R(1) correlated weakly with TBW (r = 0.56) and ECW (0.47). In both healthy controls and CHF patients, TBW correlated strongly with Ht(2)/R(50), Ht(2)/R(0), Ht(2)/R(8) and Ht(2)/Zc. Using multiple regression analysis and the Bland-Altmann approach, SF-BIA at 50 kHz and BIS proved similar in predicting TBW for both the explained variance (R(2)~0.89) and the limits of agreement. In all subjects, ECW was estimated best by including height, weight and Ht(2)/R(0 )(R(2) 0.75) or Ht(2)/Zc (R(2) 0.77) in multivariate models, while SF-BIA at 50 kHz did not explain more than 71 % of ECW variability. The SEE % was nonetheless about twice the SEE % for estimating TBW. CONCLUSIONS SF-BIA at 1 kHz is unreliable in predicting body fluids in elderly people with CHF. SF-BIA at 50 kHz and BIS are useful for estimating TBW in healthy elderly people and in cases of water imbalance, but both methods are less reliable in estimating ECW, particularly in conditions of fluid overload.
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- G Sergi
- Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Division of Geriatrics, Ospedale Giustiniani (2 piano), University of Padua, via Giustiniani 2, IT-35100 Padua, Italy.
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Kyle UG, Bosaeus I, De Lorenzo AD, Deurenberg P, Elia M, Manuel Gómez J, Lilienthal Heitmann B, Kent-Smith L, Melchior JC, Pirlich M, Scharfetter H, M W J Schols A, Pichard C. Bioelectrical impedance analysis-part II: utilization in clinical practice. Clin Nutr 2005; 23:1430-53. [PMID: 15556267 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2004.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1308] [Impact Index Per Article: 68.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2004] [Accepted: 09/07/2004] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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BIA is easy, non-invasive, relatively inexpensive and can be performed in almost any subject because it is portable. Part II of these ESPEN guidelines reports results for fat-free mass (FFM), body fat (BF), body cell mass (BCM), total body water (TBW), extracellular water (ECW) and intracellular water (ICW) from various studies in healthy and ill subjects. The data suggests that BIA works well in healthy subjects and in patients with stable water and electrolytes balance with a validated BIA equation that is appropriate with regard to age, sex and race. Clinical use of BIA in subjects at extremes of BMI ranges or with abnormal hydration cannot be recommended for routine assessment of patients until further validation has proven for BIA algorithm to be accurate in such conditions. Multi-frequency- and segmental-BIA may have advantages over single-frequency BIA in these conditions, but further validation is necessary. Longitudinal follow-up of body composition by BIA is possible in subjects with BMI 16-34 kg/m(2) without abnormal hydration, but must be interpreted with caution. Further validation of BIA is necessary to understand the mechanisms for the changes observed in acute illness, altered fat/lean mass ratios, extreme heights and body shape abnormalities.
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- Ursula G Kyle
- Clinical Nutrition Unit, Geneva University Hospital, 1211 Geneva 14, Switzerland
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Garet M, Barthélémy JC, Degache F, Costes F, Da-Costa A, Isaaz K, Lacour JR, Roche F. A questionnaire-based assessment of daily physical activity in heart failure. Eur J Heart Fail 2004; 6:577-84. [PMID: 15302005 DOI: 10.1016/j.ejheart.2003.11.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2003] [Revised: 10/30/2003] [Accepted: 11/19/2003] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Type and dose of daily energy expenditure (DEE) play a major role in modulations of health status and an increased knowledge of these dimensions of physical activity in congestive heart failure (CHF) patients would be valuable for clinical and epidemiological aims. We propose a new self-administered DEE questionnaire adapted to CHF patients and tested its validity. One hundred and five stable CHF participants, NYHA class I-IV, LVEF=33.2+/-6.1% performed an incremental symptom-limited Vo(2) (peak) test and filled in the questionnaire for DEE calculation. Reproducibility (n=24), sensitivity (n=21) of the questionnaire and inter-observer variability (n=105) were tested. Intensity levels were identified from DEE and their relationships to Vo(2)(peak), ventilatory and anthropometric characteristics were assessed by simple and multiple regression models. Reproducibility and sensitivity were high (r=0.98 and 0.88, respectively, P<0.0001) and inter-observer error reached 1.37%. DEE was highly correlated to physical activity energy expenditure (r=0.96, P<0.0001). Relationships between DEE, Vo(2)(peak), V(E)/Vo(2) and anthropometric characteristics were significant. An activity level above 3 MET was the best intensity criteria related to Vo(2)(peak) (r=0.62, P<0.0001) and DEE (r=0.80, P<0.0001). The questionnaire seems reproducible, sensible and valid for DEE estimation. Vo(2)(peak) appears related to DEE and especially to activities above 3 MET in CHF.
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- Martin Garet
- Laboratoire de Physiologie, Groupe PPEH, GIPE2S, Hôpital Nord-niv.6, Université Jean Monnet, CHU Nord, 42055 Saint-Etienne Cedex 2, France.
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Vaisman N, Silverberg DS, Wexler D, Niv E, Blum M, Keren G, Soroka N, Iaina A. Correction of anemia in patients with congestive heart failure increases resting energy expenditure. Clin Nutr 2004; 23:355-61. [PMID: 15158299 DOI: 10.1016/j.clnu.2003.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2003] [Accepted: 08/23/2003] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND & AIM Congestive heart failure (CHF) and anemia were reported to affect resting energy expenditure (REE). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of the correction of anemia on REE in subjects with CHF. PATIENTS AND METHODS Nine anemic patients with compensated CHF and CRF were studied before and after correction of anemia. REE was studied by an open circuit indirect calorimeter, body composition by dual-energy-X-ray absorption and total body and extracellular water by multi-frequency bioelectrical impedence. Four anemic and 5 non-anemic CHF patients who did not receive any new treatment served as controls. RESULTS After the correction of their anemia patients tended to increase weight (P<0.06), but no significant changes were observed in body composition. Daily caloric intake increased significantly (P<0.02). Ejection fraction increased (P<0.05) and pulse rate decreased significantly (P<0.001). REE and REEPP were in the normal range before correction but increased significantly afterwards (1402+/-256 vs. 1496+/-206 kcal/d, and 101+/-9 vs. 109+/-8, P<0.023 and P<0.006, respectively). CONCLUSION Correction of anemia in patients with CHF increases their REE. This can be related either to improved tissue oxygenation and/or to increased caloric intake.
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- N Vaisman
- Unit of Clinical Nutrition, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre, 6 Weizman Street, Tel-Aviv 64239, Israel.
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Garet M, Degache F, Costes F, Da-Costa A, Lacour JR, Barthélémy JC, Roche F. DAQIHF: Methodology and Validation of a Daily Activity Questionnaire in Heart Failure. Med Sci Sports Exerc 2004; 36:1275-82. [PMID: 15292732 DOI: 10.1249/01.mss.0000135776.09613.0d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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PURPOSE To assess the validity, reliability, and sensitivity of a new self-administered physical activity questionnaire estimating daily energy expenditure (DEE) in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). There is a need to develop a low cost, practical, and accurate tool increasing the knowledge of the type and dose of physical activity in patients with CHF for clinical and epidemiological aims. METHODS One hundred five participants with stable CHF performed an incremental symptom-limited VO2(peak) test and completed the questionnaire. For DEE calculation, time spent in each activity was multiplied by its energy cost corrected for weight, age, sex, autonomy, and the total was calculated over 24 h. Reproducibility and sensitivity of the questionnaire as well as interrater reliability were tested. Concurrent validity was assessed against VO2(peak), anthropometric characteristics and data from the literature. RESULTS Test-retest correlation coefficients used to measure reproducibility ranged from 0.82 for activities ranging from 3 to 5 METs to 0.98 for DEE and a paired Student's t-test didn't reach statistical significance for any activity score studied. Interrater reliability was high with an error in DEE estimation of 1.37% (t value = -1.064; P = NS). Sensitivity (changes in VO2(peak) concurrent to changes in DEE) was high (r = 0.88, P < 0.0001). DEE was in line with the literature in patients with CHF and relationships between DEE and VO2(peak) (r = 0.71, P < 0.0001), and DEE and anthropometric characteristics (<0.0001) were significant. Activity level above 3 METs was the best intensity criteria related to VO2(peak) (r = 0.62, P < 0.0001) and DEE (r = 0.80, P < 0.0001). CONCLUSION The questionnaire seems reliable, sensitive and valid for the estimation of DEE. VO2(peak) appears related to global DEE and more particularly to activities above 3 METs in patients with CHF.
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- Martin Garet
- Laboratory of Physiology, Unit PPEH, University Jean Monnet, CHU Nord, Saint-Etienne, France.
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Buchholz AC, McGillivray CF, Pencharz PB. Differences in resting metabolic rate between paraplegic and able-bodied subjects are explained by differences in body composition. Am J Clin Nutr 2003; 77:371-8. [PMID: 12540396 DOI: 10.1093/ajcn/77.2.371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 124] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Little is known about the relation between body composition and energy metabolism in paraplegia. OBJECTIVE We investigated the relation between body composition and energy metabolism in healthy paraplegics as compared with able-bodied control subjects. We hypothesized that paraplegics would have lower fat-free mass (FFM), body cell mass (BCM), resting metabolic rate (RMR), and thermic effect of feeding (TEF). DESIGN This cross-sectional study included 34 control subjects and 28 paraplegics (mean age: 29.1 +/- 7.6 and 33.9 +/- 9.2 y, respectively) with body mass indexes (in kg/m(2)) of 23.5 +/- 1.8 and 24.3 +/- 6.0, respectively. We measured RMR and TEF with indirect calorimetry, total body water with deuterium dilution, and extracellular water with corrected bromide space. We calculated FFM (total body water/0.732) and BCM [(total body water - extracellular water)/0.732)]. RESULTS FFM was higher in control subjects than in paraplegics (77.2 +/- 7.2% and 69.2 +/- 8.7%, respectively; P = 0.0002), as were BCM (47.4 +/- 6.7% and 35.9 +/- 8.1%, respectively; P < 0.0001) and RMR (7016 +/- 935 and 6159 +/- 954 kJ/d, respectively; P = 0.0007). FFM was the single best predictor of RMR in both groups (r(2) = 0.83 for control subjects and 0.70 for paraplegics, P < 0.0001 for both). RMR adjusted for FFM did not differ significantly between control subjects and paraplegics (6670 +/- 504 and 6588 +/- 501 kJ/d, respectively). TEF also did not differ significantly between control subjects and paraplegics (6.25 +/- 2.2% and 5.53 +/- 1.8% of energy intake, respectively). CONCLUSIONS FFM, BCM, and RMR, but not obligatory TEF, are lower in paraplegics than in control subjects. RMR does not differ between control and paraplegic subjects after adjustment for FFM, indicating similar metabolic activity in the fat-free compartment of the body.
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Lovell SL, Stevenson H, Young IS, McDowell G, McEneaney D, Riley MS, Nicholls DP. Exhaled nitric oxide during incremental and constant workload exercise in chronic cardiac failure. Eur J Clin Invest 2000; 30:181-7. [PMID: 10691993 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2000.00613.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nitric oxide (NO) is present in exhaled breath and produced by the pulmonary vascular endothelium as a potent vasodilator. Exercise is normally associated with pulmonary vasodilatation and a decrease in pulmonary vascular resistance to accommodate the increase in cardiac output. If production of NO is impaired in patients with chronic congestive cardiac failure (CCF), this might contribute to their exercise intolerance. PATIENTS AND METHODS We quantified NO production (V NO) in 12 patients with chronic stable CCF and 12 controls, at rest and during incremental cardiopulmonary exercise on a treadmill, and at a later date during constant workload exercise. RESULTS Patients had reduced V NO compared with controls during incremental exercise [381 (180) vs. 777 (275) nL min-1; mean (SD); P < 0.0001] but at constant workload V NO was similar between the two groups [353 (124) vs. 389 (189) nL min-1; P = 0.25]. Plasma levels of nitrate, the stable end-product of NO production, were significantly higher in patients [resting value 46.1 (21.6) vs. 23.0 (10.0) microM; P = 0.004] and were not influenced by exercise. CONCLUSION Impaired NO-mediated pulmonary vasodilatation does not appear to contribute to exercise limitation in CCF. Alternatively, the lower NO production observed during maximal exercise in the patient group compared with controls may reflect a reduced incremental response of a system that is already abnormally activated in heart failure.
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- S L Lovell
- Department of Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
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Addolorato G, Capristo E, Caputo F, Greco AV, Ceccanti M, Stefanini GF, Gasbarrini G. Nutritional status and body fluid distribution in chronic alcoholics compared with controls. Alcohol Clin Exp Res 1999; 23:1232-7. [PMID: 10443991 DOI: 10.1111/j.1530-0277.1999.tb04283.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND At present few data are available on the total body water (TBW) content and in particular on the distribution of water in the intra- and extracellular compartments (ICW and ECW) of alcoholics. The aim of this study was to evaluate TBW, ICW, and ECW in chronic alcoholic patients. METHODS Thirty-six alcoholics meeting DSM-III-R criteria for diagnosis (20 men, 16 women; body mass index [BMI] 22.3+/-2.57 kg/m2) were enrolled. Fifty-four healthy social drinkers (31 men, 23 women; BMI 23.7+/-1.68 kg/m2) matched for age and height were used as controls. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure was measured for all cases. All patients were assessed using specific anthropometric measurements. The waist-to-hip ratio (WHR) was used as an indicator of body fat distribution. TBW was measured by isotopic dilution by giving 100 microCi of tritiated water. ICW and ECW were assessed by multifrequence bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA). Basal metabolic rate (BMR) was measured by indirect calorimetry. RESULTS Body weight was lower in the alcoholics than in the controls (61.9+/-5.5 kg vs. 65.8+/-5.2 kg;p < 0.01), essentially due to a reduction in fat mass. Significantly higher WHR values were found in both male (p < 0.001) and female (p < 0.001) alcoholics than in healthy subjects. A higher ECW/TBW ratio was found in the alcoholics compared with the controls, both as a whole (0.53+/-0.04 vs. 0.41+/-0.03; p < 0.0001) and separated by gender (p < 0.001). CONCLUSIONS The increased ECW could derive from an increase in cellular permeability related to endothelial damage linked to the vasoconstriction present in the alcoholics and/or to a direct toxic effect of ethanol on cellular membranes. In addition, because the high ECW volumes correlated positively with WHR in the alcoholics, a potential association of these two factors in determining an increased risk of liver disease, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease may exist. Finally, the lower TBW characteristic of women may be one of the reasons for the observed greater rate of toxic effects of ethanol that occur in women.
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- G Addolorato
- Institute of Internal Medicine, Università Cattolica, Rome, Italy
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Stellato D, Cirillo M, De Santo LS, Maiello C, Marra C, De Vivo F, Anastasio P, Frangiosa A, Cotrufo M, De Santo NG, Di Iorio B. Body impedance studies in end-stage heart failure. MINERAL AND ELECTROLYTE METABOLISM 1999; 25:21-3. [PMID: 10207253 DOI: 10.1159/000057413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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This study adds another category of patients to those amenable to body impedance analysis (BIA). BIA measurements were obtained for the first time in 23 male patients with end-stage heart failure who were waiting for heart transplantation, and the data were compared with those obtained in 69 healthy controls matched for age, sex, height and weight. The data indicate that in end-stage heart failure there is an increased reactance (p<0.01) and an altered intracellular water/extracellular water ratio (p<0.03) due to the increased intracellular water (p<0.01) and decreased extracellular water (p<0.01).
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- D Stellato
- Chair of Nephrology, Second University of Naples, Italy
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